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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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